Welcome!

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Birmingham. My research is in Applied Microeconomics, particularly public policy analysis related to crime, education, health and labour.

I am currently working on an overarching project on the cost of crime in Brazil. We use Brazilian administrative data to provide new estimates on the cost of crime using georeferenced data on the universe of homicides in Brazil. To date, we have investigated the effect of exposure to violence on infant health, on human capital accumulation, on house prices, and on political outcomes.

More details can be found on the Cost of Crime Project website.

I am also interested in investigating measures to prevent crime, in particular interventions targeting vulnerable children and young people. I am a co-investigator in a project funded by Youth Endowment Fund (£1,580,080). This project evaluates an intervention providing restorative justice mentors to children who have displayed violent behaviour or committed a violent crime in the UK (REMEDI).

I am a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn/Germany and the Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing in Birmingham/UK.